Michael A. Bellesiles

A People's History of the U.S. Military (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In A People's History of the U.S. Military, historian Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat-through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs-to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand, from the American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military service can shatter and give meaning to lives; it is rarely a neutral encounter, and has contributed to a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line. The often dramatic and always richly textured first-person accounts collected in this book cover a wide range of perspectives, from ardent patriots to disillusioned cynics; barely literate farm boys to urbane college graduates; scions of founding families to recent immigrants, enthusiasts, and dissenters; women disguising themselves as men in order to serve their country to African Americans fighting for their freedom through military service.

A work of great relevance and immediacy-as the nation grapples with the return of thousands of men and women from active military duty-A People's History of the U.S. Military will become a major new touchstone for our understanding of American military service.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595587138
• Artikelnr.: 49971500

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Bellesiles teaches history at Central Connecticut State University. The author of numerous books, including 1877: America's Year of Living Violently, he lives in Connecticut.